Summary
David Dubin is a Teaching Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with over two decades of academic and research experience focused on the foundations of information representation, description, and encoding for documents and digital resources. His career at UIUC spans roles from assistant professor to senior research scientist and research associate professor, reflecting sustained contributions to how information is expressed and structured. He holds a PhD in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh and brings deep expertise in the theoretical and practical issues around metadata, encoding standards, and digital documentation. Based in Champaign, Illinois, he combines rigorous scholarship with hands-on research leadership in information organization and digital curation. Colleagues value his ability to translate abstract theories of representation into applicable frameworks for libraries and digital repositories. Beyond teaching, he has a track record of shaping how institutions think about the semantics and interoperability of digital information.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Library and Information Science, MS, Library and Information Science at Drexel University
PhD, Information Science, PhD, Information Science at University of Pittsburgh